Government
County, city, school district, port, and special district government: meetings, budgets, elections, and decisions.
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Rainier councilor resigns over military claims and apologizes to community
Mike Kreger resigned from the Rainier City Council Thursday evening, hours after admitting in a written statement that he had claimed military honors he cannot substantiate. He is still one…
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Who’s on the ballot in Columbia County? The full Nov. 3 list
Every candidate on Columbia County’s Nov. 3 ballot, from governor to the McNulty Water PUD, with what each told voters in the official pamphlets, plus the four local measures and…
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Want a piece of Columbia County? The sheriff is selling 31 properties Nov. 17
Columbia County will sell 31 county-owned properties at a sheriff’s auction Nov. 17 in St. Helens, from mineral rights to a former Clatskanie farm, with minimum bids set at what…
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Where do our property taxes go in Columbia County?
Columbia County will collect $107,322,331.38 in property taxes this year, with 46.94% going to education and about 9.54% staying in the county’s general fund, the county said in a news…
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County wants visitors to pay 13 percent on hotel stays. Measure 5-314, explained.
Measure 5-314 would add 13 percent to short stays in unincorporated Columbia County and 4 percent in cities that already tax lodging, raising an estimated $150,000 to $300,000 a year.…
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Clatskanie’s park runs on a 1960 tax rate. Measure 5-315 would add a dime.
Measure 5-315 would add 10 cents per $1,000 of assessed value for five years, about $40 a year on a $400,000 home, so the Clatskanie park district can staff the…
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St. Helens extends transportation plan survey to Nov. 13
St. Helens has opened an anonymous survey and an interactive comment map, open through Oct. 30, to gather community input on the update of its Transportation System Plan.
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Columbia County commissioners to hold Nov. 4 hearing on Scappoose urban growth boundary expansion
The Columbia County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing Nov. 4 on a proposal to add 64 acres to the Scappoose urban growth boundary and establish 480 acres…